From lighttpd to nginx

KaraMustafa · Oct 10, 2013

Hey,

I wan't to ask You guys for some tips.
Few months ago when I bought my VPS I was using Apache webserver but after some time I had big site load and it even did not work to work. So I've switched to lighter webserver as lighttpd. Right now I'm having problems with high %w (iowait). Lighttpd process is a almost always shown as D process in htop. I don't know if it's becouse my VPS configuration or some network/disk problems which i can not repair.

Maybe I should simply switch to another VPS provider?

Now I wanna try nginx as i think it may help (or not, don't know) but I'm facing little problem.
I've installed nginx and have working php, I mean main index.php is working but other php files in other directories won't work. (right now I'm using lighttpd with rewrite rules)

my /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Code:

# For more information on configuration, see:
#   * Official English Documentation: http://nginx.org/en/docs/
#   * Official Russian Documentation: http://nginx.org/ru/docs/

user              nginx;
worker_processes  1;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;
#error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log  notice;
#error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log  info;

pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    gzip  on;
    
    # Load config files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory
    # The default server is in conf.d/default.conf
    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

}

my /etc/nginx/conf.d

Code:

#
# The default server
#
server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  _;

    #charset koi8-r;

    #access_log  logs/host.access.log  main;

    location / {
        root   /var/www/html;
        index  index.php;
    }

    error_page  404              /404.html;
    location = /404.html {
        root   /var/www/html;
    }

    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
    #
    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
        root   /var/www/html;
    }

    # proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80
    #
    #location ~ \.php$ {
    #    proxy_pass   http://127.0.0.1;
    #}

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
    #
    location ~ \.php$ {
         root           /var/www/html;
         fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
         include        fastcgi_params;
         fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /var/www/html$fastcgi_script_name;
     }

    # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
    # concurs with nginx's one
    #
    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny  all;
    }
}

my lighttpd rewrite rule (php file in make dir won't work)

Code:

url.rewrite            = ( "^/make/(.*)" => "doit/index.php?id=$1" )

Code:

vmstat 1
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu-----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
 0  0      0 822824      0 988816  927 1136 21278  9318    0  185  0  0 97  3  0
 0  0      0 822116      0 989428    0    0   680     0    0  482  0  1 97  2  0
 0  0      0 821672      0 989952    0    0   428     0    0  357  1  0 98  2  0
 0  0      0 821116      0 990484    0    0   524     0    0  422  0  1 96  3  0
 0  0      0 820724      0 990884    0    0   660     0    0  499  1  1 96  3  0
 0  0      0 820292      0 991296    0    0   420     0    0  414  0  0 97  2  1
 0  1      0 820608      0 990988    0    0   260     0    0  484  0  0 98  2  0
 0  0      0 820288      0 991308    0    0   568     0    0  458  0  0 98  2  0
 0  1      0 819756      0 991856    0    0   696     4    0  367  0  1 96  3  0
 0  0      0 819900      0 991740    0    0   776     0    0  337  1  1 97  2  0
 0  0      0 818656      0 992952    0    0  1256    48    0  392  0  1 96  3  1
 0  1      0 818000      0 993660    0    0   968    52    0  431  0  1 95  5  0
 0  0      0 817480      0 994156    0    0  1136     0    0  440  0  1 96  3  0
 0  0      0 817444      0 994156    0    0   600     0    0  360  0  1 95  5  0
 0  0      0 816836      0 994788    0    0   704     0    0  522  1  0 97  2  1
 0  1      0 816792      0 994832    0    0    40     0    0  468  0  1 97  3  0
 0  0      0 816064      0 995564    0    0   720     0    0  411  0  1 95  4  0
 0  0      0 815584      0 995992    0    0   788     0    0  424  0  1 93  6  0
 0  0      0 814840      0 996728    0    0   984     4    0  435  1  1 95  4  1
 0  0      0 814440      0 997136    0    0   628     0    0  483  1  1 94  5  0
 0  0      0 813820      0 997772    0    0   620   148    0  342  0  1 98  1  0

Lock Down · Oct 10, 2013

Try using centmin if you are using centos. Comes with nginx and mariadb for mysql.
Read about here Centmin Mod - Menu based Nginx installer for CentOS servers

From lighttpd to nginx

KaraMustafa

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